Doug Church (born November 16, 1968, in Evanston, Illinois),[1] is an American video game designer and producer.

His colleague Warren Spector claims, in fact, that Church was the one who originally coined the term "immersive simulation".

[2] Later, Church joined Eidos Interactive as technical director, lending programming and design expertise on a number of games from Ion Storm and Crystal Dynamics, including extensive design work on Tomb Raider: Legend.

[3] From July 2005 to 2009, Church worked at Electronic Arts' Los Angeles office, as team leader on a project supervised by filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

[5] In August 2016, OtherSide Entertainment announced that Church had been hired as a creative consultant for the development of System Shock 3.